College Bound Reading List
Adams, Richard |
Watership Down |
Aesop |
Fables |
Agee, James |
A Death in the Family |
Anderson, Sherwood |
Winesburg, Ohio |
Anonymous |
Go Ask Alice |
Asimov, Isaac |
Short Stories |
Austen, Jane |
Emma, Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility |
Baldwin, James |
Go Tell It on the Mountain |
Balzac, Honore de |
Pere Goriot |
Beckett, Samuel |
Waiting for Godot |
Bolt, Robert |
A Man for All Seasons |
Brontë, Charlotte |
Jane Eyre |
Brontë, Emily |
Wuthering Heights |
Brooks, Gwendolyn |
In the Mecca Riot |
Browning, Robert |
Poems |
Buck, Pearl |
The Good Earth |
Butler, Samuel |
The Way of All Flesh |
Camus, Albert |
The Plague, The Stranger |
Cather, Willa |
Death Comes for the Archbishop, My Antonia |
Cervantes, Miguel |
Don Quixote |
Chaucer, Geoffrey |
The Canterbury Tales |
Chekhov, Anton |
The Cherry Orchard |
Chopin, Kate |
The Awakening |
Collins, Wilkie |
The Moonstone |
Conrad, Joseph |
Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Shaver, Victory |
Crane, Stephen |
The Red Badge of Courage |
Dante |
The Divine Comedy |
Defoe, Daniel |
Moll Flanders |
Dickens, Charles |
Bleak House, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities |
Dickinson, Emily |
Poems |
Dinesen, Isak |
Out of Africa |
Dostoevski, Fyodor |
The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment |
Douglas, Frederick |
The Life of Frederick Douglas |
Dreiser, Theodore |
An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie |
Early, Gerald |
Tuxedo Junction |
Eliot, George |
Adam Bede, Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner |
Eliot, T. S. |
Murder in the Cathedral |
Ellison, Ralph |
Invisible Man |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
Essays |
Faulkner, William |
Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, Intruder in the Dust, Light in August, The Sound and the Fury |
Fielding, Henry |
Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones |
Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night |
Flaubert, Gustave |
Madame Bovary |
Forster, E. M. |
A Passage to India, A Room with a View |
Franklin, Benjamin |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
Galsworthy, John |
The Forsyte Saga |
Golding, William |
Lord of the Flies |
Goldsmith, Oliver |
She Stoops to Conquer |
Graves, Robert |
I, Claudius |
Greene, Graham |
The Heart of the Matter, The Power and the Glory |
Hamilton, Edith |
Mythology |
Hardy, Thomas |
Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Return of the Native, Tess of the D’Urbervilles |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
The House of the Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter |
Hemingway, Ernest |
A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises |
Henry, O. |
Stories |
Hersey, John |
A Single Pebble |
Hesse, Hermann |
Demian, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf |
Homer |
The Iliad, The Odyssey |
Hughes, Langston |
Poems, The Big Sea |
Hugo, Victor |
Les Misérables |
Huxley, Aldous |
Brave New World |
Ibsen, Henrik |
A Doll House, An Enemy of the People, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, The Wild Duck |
James, Henry |
The American, Daisy Miller, Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw |
Joyce, James |
Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man |
Kafka, Franz |
The Castle, The Metamorphosis, The Trial |
Keats, John |
Poems |
Kerouac, Jack |
On the Road |
Koestler, Arthur |
Darkness at Noon |
Lawrence, Jerome, and Robert E. Lee |
Inherit the Wind |
Lewis, Sinclair |
Arrowsmith, Babbitt, Main Street |
Llewellyn, Richard |
How Green Was My Valley |
Machiavelli, Niccolo |
The Prince |
MacLeish, Archibald |
J.B. |
Mann, Thomas |
Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain |
Marlowe, Christopher |
Dr. Faustus |
Maugham, Somerset |
Of Human Bondage |
McCullers, Carson |
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
Melville, Herman |
Billy Budd, Moby-Dick, Typee |
Miller, Arthur |
The Crucible, Death of a Salesman |
Monsarrat, Nicholas |
The Cruel Sea |
Naylor, Gloria |
Bailey’s Cafe, The Women of Brewster Place |
O’Neill, Eugene |
The Emperor Jones, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Mourning Becomes Electra |
Orwell, George |
Animal Farm, 1984 |
Pasternak, Boris |
Doctor Zhivago |
Poe, Edgar Allan |
Short Stories |
Remarque, Erich |
All Quiet on the Western Front |
Rolvaag, O. E. |
Giants in the Earth |
Rostand, Edmond |
Cyrano de Bergerac |
Salinger, J. D. |
The Catcher in the Rye |
Sandburg, Carl |
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years |
Saroyan, William |
The Human Comedy |
Sayers, Dorothy |
The Nine Tailors |
Shakespeare, William |
Plays and Sonnets |
Shaw, George Bernard |
Arms and the Man, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Saint Joan |
Sheridan, Richard B. |
The School for Scandal |
Shute, Nevil |
On the Beach |
Sinclair, Upton |
The Jungle |
Sophocles |
Antigone, Oedipus Rex |
Steinbeck, John |
East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men |
Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
Swift, Jonathan |
Gulliver’s Travels |
Thackeray, William M. |
Vanity Fair |
Thoreau, Henry David |
Walden |
Tolstoy, Leo |
Anna Karenina, War and Peace |
Trollope, Anthony |
Barchester Towers |
Turgenev, Ivan |
Fathers and Sons |
Twain, Mark |
Pudd’nhead Wilson |
Updike, John |
Rabbit, Run |
Vergil |
The Aeneid |
Voltaire |
Candide |
Walker, Alice |
The Color Purple, Meridian |
Warren, Robert Penn |
All the King’s Men |
Waugh, Evelyn |
Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust |
Wharton, Edith |
The Age of Innocence |
White, T. H. |
The Once and Future King, The Sword in the Stone |
Wilde, Oscar |
The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Wilder, Thornton |
Our Town |
Williams, Tennessee |
The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire |
Wolfe, Thomas |
Look Homeward, Angel |
Woolf, Virginia |
Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse |
Wouk, Herman |
The Caine Mutiny |
Wright, Richard |
Black Boy, Native Sun |
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